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You have, doubtless, seen many advertisements of com- 
panies who propose to operate mines in the Alaska and 
British America gold fields. 

These companies are capitalized at from five to twenty- 
five millions of dollars, and propose to pay dividends on these 
vast stock issues, but none of them enter into detail as to 
their possible operations, nor do they give any logical rea- 
sons why the public should invest in their shares. This 
companj' propose to operate 

5TEAM SHOVELS AND DREDGES ON THEFR MINES. 

Dredging for gold is a form of gold mining that is 
yearly attracting increased attention. In California and 
New Zealand the results are eminently satisfactory, and 
other sections are passing beyond the experimental'stage. 
Two years ago this paper had an illustrated account of the 
first dredger in Montana, operating in Grasshopper creek, 
r.ear Bannack. A few weeks aj,o a third dredger of greatly 
increased capacity was put in successful operation there. 
The Bannack Dredging Company is the owner of the 
"A. F. Graeter." The Bon Accord Company has placed 
an order for a fourth dredger in the same vicinity. With 
the "F. L. Graves" the Gold Dredging Company cleaned 
up $80,000 in a four months' run last season. The.se 
dredges take the place of the old rockers used in that 
vicinity for the past thirty years, and for thirteen miles be- 
low Bannack, Grasshopper creek is devoted to jjlacer mining 
with these effective appliances. The upper .Sacramento 
river, in this state, affords an example of similar profitable 
work, and a dredge is now building at Smartsville, Yuba 
•;^"nty, that is^expected to be of practical value.— Fro/n 
, S(.j^.JJ^jfJ^ Press, of Sun Francisco, Cal. 



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Our dredging macliines, operated on boats, can 
Avork every 3-ard of the low banks and river beds. 
The gravel is pumped or shovelled by steam shovels 
up to the deck of the boat and delivered to our gold 
saving sluices and machines arranged on the deck ; 
the tailings are washed off into the stream by the 
water that comes up with the gravel, the gold is 
deposited in the riffles and corrugations of the 
sluice boxes. On such ground as this our Com- 
pany can take the claims that are worked out by 
individual effort and abandoned, work the ground 
that is so low the placer miner could not work it, 
and take out more money than the original owner 
realized from his efforts. 

River dredging has proved a great success in 
Siberia and New Zealand, and we propose to take 
up on our first steamer in the Spring the most 
powerful and scientifical^r constructed dredger 
ever built for that purpose. 

CONCESSIONS FOR DREDGING. 

Hon. Warren B. Hooker, one of our Directors, 
is Chairman of the National River and Harbor 
Committee,the most important committee in Con- 
gress at Washington with one exception. Alaska 
being a territory and under the control of Congress, 
all matters relating to transportation and con- 
cessions for dredging are passed upon by the 
River and Harbor Committee, and with the Chair- 
man of that Committee one of our Directors, we 
are not likely to suffer in the general rush for 
Congressional favors as represented by way of 
exclusive rights and privileges. 

The result of the operations of a company or- 
ganized as is ours and with such paramount ad- 
vantages as we possess, if honestly conducted, is 
beyond question much more certain to eventuate 
in Dividends to Shareholders than individual 
effort can possibl}' attain. Of the great number 
of persons who are going, and will go to Alaska, 
not more than one in five hundred of those who 
succeed in getting into the mines will make 
mone}^, the others will have spent at least one 
thousand dollars each and from one to two years 
time, and will have nothing to show for it, nothing 
to look back upon but a period of the greatest 
hardship of their lives — and all in vain. 

Think of it! Is it not better for you to invest 
from $10.00 to $1,000.00 or $5,000.00 in shares of 
our company, and stay at home, than it is to under- 
take the hardships of a year in the frozen North, 
with all the chances of freezing, starving or losing 
your life by accident, and the assurance that 
should you escape all these perils, 3'ou have but 
one chance in twenty of coming out as well off 
as when you went in? 



Such a compauj- as The Yukon Trading, Min- 
ing & Exploration Co., Ltd.. with its great num- 
ber ot agents, with its Representatives in the Gold 
District the past j-ear ; with its ample stores of 
ever}' conceivable necessity for trading and success- 
fully prosecuting its work, with its valuable gold 
producing mines, has a hundred chances to the 
individual's one chance, and it is a conservative 
estimate to say that each $100.00 invested in its 
shares will return more profit to the investor than 
each $1,000 expended in individual effort in the 
Gold Fields of Alaska. 

"The opportunity to do small things occurs every 
day, but the possibility of accomplishing great results 
comes seldom in a lifetime." 

The histor}^ of man and his fortunes from decade 
to decade, generation to generation, demonstrates 
that he who rises to eminence in the Financial, 
Commercial or Political World must be endowed 
by nature with lofty aspirations, great self-confi- 
dence and boldness in grasping the fleeting oppor- 
tunities of life that to the slower and more 
plodding nature seem visionary and chimerical. 
The confident and courageous man seizes the 
opportunity when it is presented, eliminates, so 
far as possible, the element of risk, and with suc- 
cess rides on the topmost wave to prosperity. 

The opportunity to do small things occurs 
every day, but the possibility of accomplishing 
great restilts is offered to but few more than once. 
When it comes, the bright and daring man is 
quick to see it, and just as quick to take advant- 
age of the situation, while the more timid is lost 
in a sea of doubt and uncertaint}' ; he hesitates, 
questions, consults his friends and, finally, when 
his mind is quite made up, awakens to a realiz- 
ation that it is too late ; the chance is passed, the 
opportunity of a lifetime, gone. 

'TIS SAID THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. 

Let tis look back but a few brief years in the 
history of this great cotmtry of ours and we be- 
hold the eyes of mankind turned with longing 
toward the new El Dorado at whose feet reposes in 
dazzling splendor the Golden Gate. 

And Gold — Primeval Gold — is luring the brave, 
the courageous and the masterful men of every 
land and clime. As in a dream, we see them daring 
the long and dangerous journey across the great 
plains, beset by savage Indians, braving the perils 
of the unknown seas, congregating in mighty 
hosts, and all spurred on by the one great hope, 
the one o'erpowering ambition — WEALTH. 

Another page is turned and we behold them in 
the mines, a vast and mighty army of the noblest 
men of all the earth, the choicest spirits of the old 



world and the new, the educated and the ignorant, 
the sons of great families and the nobodies, but all 
selected by nature for their great work b}' that 
instinct which makes no mistakes. 

We see them, in fancy, toiling — like the Genii 
in the fable — 'extracting the glittering metal so 
cunningljr stored away in Natixre's treasure cham- 
bers. They gave new \vealth and energy, not 
alone to this great land of ours, but to the world. 
Through all the arteries of commerce, of science 
and of art they poured the golden stream and 
quickened the pulsations of enterprise in every 
walk of life. 

Search among the great names of to-day and 
you will be surprised at the vast number of those 
who began their journey to Wealth, to Power, and 
Greatness in the Mines and Mining Stock of Cali- 
fornia, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana and Colo- 
rado. 

The j^oiing men of this generation have had no 
such opportunity for the founding of fortunes as 
California presented to our fathers. No such 
chance for investment in stocks as had those hardy 
pioneers who wrested their wealth from the then 
unconquered West. 

But to-day the Greatest, the Grandest and the 
Richest opportunity the world has ever known is 
presented to all who would follow in the foot-steps 
of those Royal Argonauts. 

The few will grasp it and march unruffled to 
Prominence and Power. The many will hesitate, 
doubt, procrastinate. Their chance will vanish, 
leaving naught but vain regret. 

TO WHICH CLASS DO YOU BELONG? 

The doubting, timid, hesitating throng? If so 
we kindly ask you to hand this pamphlet to a 
friend. But, if 3'ou propose to cast your lot with 
the smaller but more courageous band. Subscribe 
for our stock now — if you are already a shareholder 
subscribe again as it is unquestionably the oppor- 
tunity of a lifetime for money making. Price of 
shares 50 cents, par value $1.00. After December 
15 no stock will be sold for less than 65 cents per 
share, and will be taken off from public sale 
entirely until spring. It is fiilly paid, non- 
assessable and subject to no futher call or liability 
whatever. 

Yukon Trading, Minuig & Exploration Co., Ltd., 
92 STATE STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. 



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